Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880

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Macmillan, 1889 - 393 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 392 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Pàgina 117 - Solomon's account in the text, — that, because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil.
Pàgina 254 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business...
Pàgina 216 - In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience of youth, But by the trade in classic niceties, The dangerous craft of culling term and phrase From languages that want the living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart ; To tell us what is passion, what is truth. What reason, what simplicity and sense.
Pàgina 247 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou see'st — if indeed I go— (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion ; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Pàgina 255 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me...
Pàgina 312 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Pàgina 373 - THE ROSE THE rose had been washed, just washed in a shower, Which Mary to Anna conveyed, The plentiful moisture encumbered the flower And weighed down its beautiful head. The cup was all filled, and the leaves were all wet, And it seemed, to a fanciful view, To weep for the buds it had left with regret On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay...
Pàgina 361 - Think you that a drop of water, which to the vulgar eye is but a drop of water, loses anything in the eye of the physicist who knows that its elements are held together by a force which, if suddenly liberated, would produce a flash of lightning?
Pàgina 395 - Brooklyn Journal.—" His conception of the teacher is a worthy idea for all to bear in mind." New England Journal of Education : " This is eminently the work oi a man of wisdom and experience. He takes a broad and comprehensive view of the work of the teacher, and his suggestions on all topics are worthy of the most careful consideration.

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